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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.orbutil.threadpool;


public interface ThreadPoolChooser {

  /**
   * This method is used to return an instance of ThreadPool based on the
   * strategy/policy implemented in the ThreadPoolChooser from the set of
   * ThreadPools allowed to be used by the ORB. Typically, the set of
   * ThreadPools would be specified by passing the threadpool-ids
   * configured in the ORB element of the domain.xml of the appserver.
   */
  public ThreadPool getThreadPool();

  /**
   * This method is used to return an instance of ThreadPool that is obtained
   * by using the id argument passed to it. This method will be used in
   * situations where the threadpool id is known to the caller e.g. by the
   * connection object or looking at the high order bits of the request id
   */
  public ThreadPool getThreadPool(int id);

  /**
   * This method is a convenience method to see what threadpool-ids are being
   * used by the ThreadPoolChooser
   */
  public String[] getThreadPoolIds();
}
